2011 in Review

This was another year that saw me buying more old records than new ones, but here are the releases that I returned to repeatedly this year. Special shout-out to Further Records for releasing such quality material.

House/Techno Albums

1. Virgo Four: Resurrection (Rush Hour)
2. Hieroglyphic Being: The Urantia Project (Further Records)
3. Moritz von Oswald Trio: Horizontal Structures (Honest Jon’s Records)
4. Kuba Sojka: Mysterious Intrigue (Mathematics Recordings)
5. Yard: Celestial Acid (Further Records)
6. Hieroglyphic Being: Primitif Nous Sommes (Music from Mathematics)
7. Hieroglyphic Being: Cosmo Rhythmatic (Music from Mathematics)
8. Vagon Brei: Destiny (Further Records)
9. Hieroglyphic Being: A Memoir of Life in the Lust (Music from Mathematics)
10. John Heckle: The Second Son (Mathematics Recordings)
11. Tevo Howard: Pandora’s Box (Hour House Is Your Rush Records)
12. Andy Vaz: Straight Vacationing (Yore)
13. Overcast Sound: Beneath the Grain (Entropy Records)
14. Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit: Secret Rhythms 4 (Nonplace)
15. Hieroglyphic Being: Strange Strings (Music from Mathematics)
16. Jeff Mills: The Power (Axis)
17. Andy Stott: Passed Me By (Modern Love)
18. Rick Wilhite: Analog Aquarium (Still Music)
19. Jeff Mills: 2087 (Axis)
20. Steffi: Yours & Mine (Ostgut Tonträger)

IDM Albums

1. Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica (Mexican Summer, Software Records)
2. NHKyx: yx aka 1ch aka Solo (Skam)
3. Cayos: Shell Beach (Schematic)
4. Phoenecia: Demissions (Schematic, Detroit Underground)
5. Dalglish: Benacah Drann Deachd (Highpoint Lowlife, Record Label Records)

EPs

1. Omar S presents Colonel Abrams: “Who Wrote The Rules of Love” (FXHE)
2. Simoncino: Beat the Street EP (Mathematics Recordings)
3. Floating Points: Shadows (Eglo Records)
4. Pittsburgh Track Authority: Archipelago (Further Records)
5. Takeshi Kouzuki: The House of the Rising Sun EP (Mathematics Recordings)
6. San Laurentino: Traces EP (Mathematics Recordings)
7. Omar-S: HSG (High School Graffiti) (Scion Audio/Visual)
8. Area: Youth (Kimochi)
9. Juju & Jordash: Unleash the Golem Part 1 (Golf Channel Recordings)
10. Aster: Tormenta Del Desierto EP (Mathematics Recordings)

Compilations

1. Physic or Surgery (Highpoint Lowlife)
2. Gene Hunt Presents Chicago Dance Tracks (Rush Hour Recordings)
3. From the Vaults: The Definitive Sounds of Prescription Records Vol. 1 (Prescription)
4. Fac. Dance (Strut)
5. Elektro Diskow (Mixmag)

Jacob Arnold, Dec 22, 2011 in Features: Charts